Beautiful Cinderella. You've got such a lovely garden and it's full of colour and interest. I love the different levels, trellises etc, and I like the colour of your back door :o) It's all very nice indeed.
And you've got Coleuses :o) I didn't grow them this year. They bring c olour for such a long time don't they ....

Thank you Hywel, I'm glad you like my garden. When we first moved here it was on a slope, so we terraced it and made two rooms. The fences and trellis's etc were put up for privacy but have been made use of, with lots of climbers. The coleus I grew from seed to sell at our village country market, but strangely not many sold, so I made use of them myself and have to say I have been pleased with them.

Well, it's really dark here Cinders, and I'm just in from doing the shopping in the pouring rain and howling wind. I parked my car right up against the front door to get in quickly! It was lovely to see your photos....shades of yesterday when my world was all sunshine and birdsong....what a difference a day makes eh? lol....love all the heucheras!

Oh, I'm pleased to hear that Libet. Silver Scrolls and Plum Royale are doing well too. I have Plum Royale in a pot at the moment but it is growing well so may put it in the garden for the winter. If I can find a space !!!!

Everything is flowering so well in your garden, Cinders, all credit to you! .. In pic 2 are those Liatris to the left? ... I have grown some in a pot for the first time ... do you just cut them down to ground level or wait until the Spring please? ... :o)

Yes it is Liatris, but they are finished now. I shall cut them down this week I expect. I'm afraid I can be a bit brutal when I have the secateurs in my hand, and I often take a chance and cut things down and just hope for the best !

Cinders, I have spent the past hour getting those Hostas out of the blue pots! ... Such tough roots ... but on a positive note they have been divided into about twenty small plants ... Hostas anyone? ... lol!

Those are lovely photos of your garden, Cinderella.September can be very beautiful. Aren't heucheras great? They just go on forever. I have a few but am definitely going to buy more next year. I love dahlias too, tho' I used to hate them (earwigs), but the few I put in have been decimated by slug and snail attack (Grrr, in the style of The Beano). My organic methods of protection have failed, tho' I didn't try nematodes this year, which have previously been effective with other plants.How have you protected yours?

Thank you Tuesdaybear, glad you like my garden. I am a Heucheraholic I'm afraid, really hooked. Before long it will be nearly all heuchera in my garden !! I don't normally have many dahlias, for the same reasons as you, and I'm afraid I do put down pellets, the kind sort, at the start until they have grown a bit, then its just a case of going out and collecting them and disposing of them. I have never tried nematodes.

Typing across a cat now (Mojo), who has just stopped walking over keyboard and setled on lap. Also tried kind pellets but without success. Even hedgehog in garden hasn't been enough! Anyway, lovely to see your dahlias looking so good. Well, not just dahlias but whole garden.Just need some good weather now to enjoy the late Summer's beauty.

I found going out in the morning and evening and just picking them off and dropping them in a bottle of neat bleach was a sure way of reducing their numbers, fewer slugs and snails meant fewer eggs and it helped to cut the population a bit. A friend suggested a beer trap but it did not work for me. I did not want to get rid of them completely because we have thrushes who like to use the stones on the rockery as an anvil to get at the snails. I do not think they eat slugs. The blue pellets and the very smelly green organic powder were no good either. In fact I think the only year I used the slug pellets if anything we got more of them.

No defintely don't waste the beer, that itself encourages a party...:))) also the pellets...but the beggars will climb other plants and walls, just to drop down on your favourite plants...it's an on going battle, luckily for me, I have Chickens that adore a snail, so any collected go straight to them...:))